Why wouldn’t you? The natural state of humanity isn’t to kill on sight indiscriminately. A good chunk of Latin America are descended from both native and European ancestry, in some cases more than half of some Latin American countries’ population.
There’s also a whole lot of loaded assuming here; who is to say the mixing is not of Neanderthal women and homo sapiens men?
The study simply observes evidence of interbreeding. There doesn’t really need to be a theory about why if we can observe the characteristics and genetics directly.
There’s also a whole lot of loaded assuming here; who is to say the mixing is not of Neanderthal women and homo sapiens men?
The study simply observes evidence of interbreeding. There doesn’t really need to be a theory about why if we can observe the characteristics and genetics directly.